An exhibition on the history of slavery in Seychelles is making its way to different schools on the main islands of Mahe, Praslin, and La Digue to educate students on the role the slave trade has played in the development of the island nation. It is part of a series of activities organised for the International [...]
Seychelles' Pavilion at the Dubai Expo 2020 has won a gold award for Best Exhibition Design in the sustainability thematic district, presented in a ceremony on Thursday on the closing day of the event. In presenting his heartiest congratulations to the Seychelles Expo 2020 team, Seychelles' President Wavel Ramkalawan said that "as one of the [...]
Military personnel from Seychelles and India have learned how to work together to carry out counterinsurgency, counter-terrorism and anti-piracy operations in a 10-day joint exercise. The 'Exercise Lamitye,' which translates from Creole to 'Friendship Exercise,' took place in Seychelles from March 22 to 31 with the participation of the main units of the Seychelles Defence Forces [...]
The International Energy Agency (IEA) was due on Friday to hold an emergency meeting on possible new measures to calm the global oil market amid soaring prices sparked by the Ukraine war. "We are going to discuss what kind of steps we can take in order to provide stability to the oil markets," IEA executive [...]
Sri Lanka's capital was under heavy security on Friday after hundreds of protesters tried to storm the president's home in a night of violence and anger at a dire economic crisis. The South Asian nation is seeing severe shortages of essentials, sharp price rises and crippling power cuts in its most painful downturn since independence [...]
Seychelles' Supreme Court sentenced a Zimbabwean female national to five years in prison for the importation and trafficking of controlled drugs on Thursday. According to the Anti-Narcotics Bureau (ANB), Elsie Esther Vambe, 45, was sentenced to five years in prison for the importation of a controlled drug and another five years for trafficking a controlled drug. The [...]
The Democratic Republic of Congo was admitted Tuesday into the regional East African Community (EAC), a bloc with a single market allowing free trade and movement of citizens, the group said. The EAC, based in the Tanzanian town of Arusha, now expands to seven nations, counting Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, South Sudan and Uganda among [...]
Online travel authorisation for Seychellois passport holders for entry to their homeland will be free of charge as of Friday, April 1, the Ministry of Transport announced on Thursday. The change applies to all applications by Seychellois passport holders for both the standard application fee of €5.40 and expedited application of €25.40. These same fees [...]
Seychelles’ President Wavel Ramkalawan has stressed on the vulnerabilities of the island nation vis-a-vis the effects of climate change despite having delivered on most of the sustainable development goals at an action forum in Dubai on Wednesday. State House said that Ramkalawan participated in a forum ‘Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Action under the theme: [...]
Seychelles expects to set up a fisheries harvest strategy policy in the third quarter of 2022 that will allow relevant authorities to monitor, examine and manage the stocks of different species, a top government official said on Wednesday. Key actors in the fisheries sector in Seychelles attended a training session on 'Seychelles' Fisheries Harvest Strategy [...]
